Killer ride

 Normally "killer ride" would be a good thing but yesterday was painful. Amber and I decided to do the Sam Woo loop which involves riding from Anaheim to Dana Point, then Irvine, Huntington Beach, and back to Anaheim. As it never goes more than 15 miles inland it's normally a good route for a warm day but yesterday was extremely hot. It was still 85 when we finished the ride at 5pm. It must have been close to 90 in the mid-afternoon in Irvine - well outside my comfort zone. A brutal ride, not made any better by the fact I was still getting over a cold.

Oh well - I survived and I'm stronger now.

Unrelated to cycling, I've been reading about a huge controversy in Scotland about end-of-year exam grades. All exams were cancelled because of COVID-19 so the exam board tried to guess the exam results from teacher evaluations and in-course test results. Many students received grades that were lower than their teachers had recommended so there has been understandable outrage. Some people are asserting that the results were affected by the location of the school, with the grades of students in poorer locations being downgraded more often. 

So here's an image of a protester's sign I pulled from the BBC website. Can you see the irony?

Obviously, if you are claiming your exam results should be better, you shouldn't use the noun form "effect" where you should have used the verb form "affect". I have to wonder if this is why the BBC chose to use this image. The Brits can get fussy about grammar.

So, new app, "GrammarCheckMySign"?